c'mon, all you hi-speed webmasters out there and you all are complaining about hotlinking, the other day it was password theives.
Stop worrying about the small stuff so you can worry about making money.
here is a quick class for anyone here who needs it.
having your images hotlinked is only for people who have no idea how to run their site who who wants their stuff hot linked, I have stuff that can be hot linked because I want it hot linked, but for galleries this is what you do.
I have a gallery here
http://www.landofvenus.com/galleries/1/index.html
the html and thumbs are in the same directory )the directory 1 as you see above), the actual images are in
http://www.landofvenus.com/galleries/1/images/
there is a htaccess in /images that only allow the pics to loaded from
http://www.landofvenus.com/galleries/1/index.html
its that simple.
Now start worrying about making money and stop sweating the small stuff.
Just my 2 cents worth...